Theater Resources & Links
Statewide Service Organizations
NC Theatre Conference
The mission of the North Carolina Theatre Conference is to improve and enhance the environment for quality theatre in North Carolina.
National OrganizationsTheatre Communication Group
Offers a number of different programs and opportunities to individuals and organizations. NEA/TCG Career Development Programs for Directors and Designers, NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program, New Generations Program, Observership Program, TCG/MetLife Foundation Extended Collaboration Grant, TCG/ITI Travel Grants Program. The ArtSearch is one of the premier listings for jobs in the performing Arts. Fee.
National Funding Resources for Organizations and IndividualsThe Foundation Center
The leading online resource and learning center for foundation grants and information. The website has a number of areas that are extremely valuable to any grants writer. Some aspects of the site are fee based, but there are also listings of Foundation Center Libraries per state. Some of these libraries even have the FC Search CD-ROM program available. Be sure to check out the Learning Lab menu button. Within the Learning Lab there are three sections: Virtual Class Room, Online Librarian and the Online Bookshelf.
New York Foundation for the Arts
NYFA Source is the most extensive national directory of awards, services, and publications for artists. Listings include over 4,200 arts organizations, 2,900 award programs, 4,200 service programs, and 900 publications for individual artists across the country.
National Endowment for the Arts
Listing of Theater funding opportunities, guidelines and application forms.
Grants.gov
Clearing house for all federal grant listings.
ARTS LINK
ArtsLink Projects support U.S. artists, curators, presenters and non-profit arts organizations undertaking projects in Central Europe, Russia and Eurasia. Awards are made in a given discipline on an alternate-year basis: 2006 Performing Arts and Literature. Click on Grants & Opportunities, then Arts Link Projects.
Fund for Southern Communities
The Fund for Southern Communities is a public foundation that supports and unites organizations and donors working to create just and sustainable communities that are free of oppression and that embrace and celebrate all people. Through grant making and related activities the Fund fosters social change initiated by community-based groups in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Grants for Individual Theater ArtistsTheatre Communication Group
Offers a number of different programs and opportunities to individuals and organizations. NEA/TCG Career Development Programs for Directors and Designers, NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program, New Generations Program, Observership Program, TCG/MetLife Foundation Extended Collaboration Grant, TCG/ITI Travel Grants Program. The ArtSearch is one of the premier listings for jobs in the performing Arts. Fee for ArtSearch.
The Puffin Foundation
Grants to individuals in literature, photography, performing arts. Grants up to $2,500.
The Puffin Foundation
20 East Oakdene Avenue
Teaneck, NJ 07666-4198
Phone: (201) 836-8923
Fax: (201) 836-1734
E-mail: puffingrant@mindspring.com
Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art
Awards grants of $2,000-$5,000 to performance artists, allowing them to produce major works anywhere in the State of New York. Artists from all over the world are invited to apply.
Ella Lyman Cabot Trust
Grants to individuals for projects (sometimes involving a departure from one's usual vocation or a creative extension of it) with a promise of good to others. Awards are usually made on a one-year basis and are not renewed.
Ella Lyman Cabot Trust
c/o Brooks Thompson
109 Rockland St.
Holliston, MA 01746
Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation
To provide encouragement and financial assistance to composers, lyricists and bookwriters as well as nonprofit producing companies with a commitment to supporting the work of new musical theatre projects and musical theatre artists.
Princess Grace Awards for Theater Artists and Playwrights
Dedicated to identifying and assisting emerging young artists in theater to realize their career goals through scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships. Awards are based primarily on the artistic quality of the artist's past work, his/her potential for future excellence, and the appropriateness of the activities to the individual's artistic growth.
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts
The foundation aims to identify emerging artists and assist them at critical junctures in their educational and professional development, and to raise the appreciation for and support of the arts in American society. Arts Recognition and Talent Search (ARTS): Through this national program, 17 and 18 year-old artists may apply for college scholarships. Artists in the categories of dance, jazz, film and video, music, photography, theater, visual arts, voice, and writing are eligible.
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts
800 Brickell Ave., Ste. 500
Miami, FL 33131
Phone : (305) 377-1140
Fax: (305) 377-1149
E-mail: nfaa@nfaa.org
Sundance Theatre Laboratory
A three-week long workshop offering playwrights, directors, choreographers, composers, solo performers, and ensembles the time, space and support to develop new plays and musicals or to explore new approaches to existing scripts.
Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation
Offers young, early-career directors and choreographers the opportunity to observe the work of master directors and choreographers as they create new productions on Broadway, off-Broadway and at leading regional theatres, primarily in New York, Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Observers often have access to the entire rehearsal process, from first rehearsal to opening night, and receive stipends of $250-$1,000.
Tobin Foundation for the Theatre Arts
Grant requests having specific focus on theatrical arts, including opera and theatre stage, set, and costume design are encouraged.
Tobin Foundation for the Theatre Arts
P.O. Box 91019
San Antonio, TX78209-1019
Phone: (210) 828-9736
Fax: (210) 828-6560
Email: Tobinart@mindspring.com
United States Institute for Theatre Technology
USITT is dedicated to actively promoting the advancement of the knowledge and skills of its members. Member grants and fellowships are available in performing arts design and technology.
Arts International Artists Exploration Fund
Enables individual U.S. performing artists to pursue opportunities abroad that further their artistic development. Grants ranging from $1,000 to $3,000 support artists pursuing a wide variety of activities abroad, including the development or expansion of creative relationships with artists and art organizations; the exploration of artistic forms; or the creation of new work, either individually or in collaboration with artists abroad.
Artists Exploration Fund
Arts International
251 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010
Phone: (212) 674-9744
Email: omartins@artsinternational.org
CEC ArtsLink Inc.
ArtsLink Projects provide support to US artists, curators, presenters, and arts organizations undertaking projects in Central Europe, Russia and Eurasia. Applicants must be working with an artist or organization in that region and projects should be designed to benefit participants and audiences in both the US and the host country. CEC ArtsLink, can assist interested applicants in identifying contacts in the region.
U.S./Japan Creative Artists' Program
A partnership of the NEA and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC), allows American artists to live and work in Japan for six months. Artists from the visual, media, performing, literary, and design arts are encouraged to apply.
Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship Program
Established to increase participation of people of color in professional theater. Fellowships require a 40-44 week commitment and are available to work with seasoned professionals in the areas of artistic and technical production, arts administration and Community Engagement. Arena Stage provides a modest stipend and may assist in locating housing.
National Alliance for Musical Theatre Producer-Writer Initiative
Builds relationships between writers of musical theater and producers working on the development of new musicals throughout the U.S. The Producer-Writer Initiative grant is awarded to NAMT voting members, who apply on behalf of their organization and a writing team. Each theater will receive $3,000 to help fund a writing team's residency for a minimum of seven days, supporting housing and travel costs and an artist stipend for the writing team.
Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Foundation
Giving to individuals and organizations for development within American musical theater.
Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Foundation
P.O. Box 18925
Corpus Christi, TX 78480
Phone: (512) 937-2520
The Kleban Foundati
Support for individual theatrical lyricists and librettists.
The Kleban Foundation
c/o Stein & Stein
270 Madison Ave., Ste. 1410
New York, NY 10016
Jim Henson Foundation
Awards grants for the development and creation of new works of puppet theater by American artists. Awards can only be made to IRS tax-exempt organizations. Individual artists are encouraged to apply using a fiscal sponsor.
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